Ukrainian security service claims responsibility for October Crimea bridge blast

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s security service has claimed responsibility for the first time for an explosion that badly damaged the Kerch Bridge linking the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula with Russia. The explosion, which Russian authorities said was caused by a truck bomb, left three people dead. The head of the Ukrainian Security Service said Wednesday his agency was behind the attack. A further attack on the bridge last week, killing a couple and seriously injuring their daughter, left a span of the roadway hanging perilously. The bridge connecting Crimea and Russia carries heavy significance for Moscow, both logistically and psychologically, as a key artery for military and civilian supplies and as an assertion of Kremlin control of the peninsula it annexed in 2014.